Difference between revisions of "Printerpullpages"

Revision as of 22:37, 9 June 2009

Introduction

A new printing UI should give us better performance, more ease of use and overall more customer satisfaction. New features like the instant preview in a print dialog as well as unified N-Up printing for all applications will bring OOo's print experience more up to current standards. Additionally system integration can benefit by making use of native print dialogs (for which the MacOSX implementation will be the prime example).

The development is done in the CWS printerpullpages.

Requirements

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Status and Proposals

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Scope of the Work

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Current State of Printing in OpenOffice.org 3.0

Screenshots

Print Dialogs

Writer Print Dialog

Calc Print Dialog

Impress Print Dialog

Draw Print Dialog

Math Print Dialog

Print Options Dialogs

Writer Print Options Dialog

Calc Print Options Dialog

Impress Print Options Dialog

Draw Print Options Dialog

Math Print Options Dialog

Various Printer Dialogs

Printer Setup Dialog

Printer Properties Dialog (Paper)

Printer Properties Dialog (Device)

Tools - Options... - OpenOffice.org - Print Sub-Page

Warning Print Options Dialog

PDF Export Dialog

PDF Export Options Dialog (General)

PDF Export Options Dialog (Initial View)

PDF Export Options Dialog (User Interface)

PDF Export Options Dialog (Links)

PDF Export Options Dialog (Security)

Competitive Analysis

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Acrobat Reader

Notice that you can set the arrangement of the pages on the paper sheet in drop down list 'Page Order'. That might be interesting for OOo, because OOo is used in different language and some users writing in e.g. Hebrew or Asian languages might have other preferred arrangements. Notice also the glider under the preview. There you can "scroll" through all sheets to see whether they are printed as desired. The 'page scaling' drop down list contains also the option 'brochure'. The fields beneath change according to the 'page scaling' choice. The sheet orientation is taken from the printer properties. That is more comfortable in OOo, where you set landscape or portrait in the printing dialog.

Printing Dialog in Acrobat Reader on WinXP

Definition of Terms

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Roadmap

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Development Versions and Stuff

• Development versions can be found at: ftp://qa-upload.services.openoffice.org/printerpullpages/
• EIS entry: http://tools.services.openoffice.org/EIS2/cws.ShowCWS?logon=true&Id=7202&Path=DEV300%2Fprinterpullpages

Mockups and Screenshots

Print Dialog (system independent)

Current state of the N-Up page

Online Discussion, Press Coverage and Comments

• Philipp Lohmann: New Print UI, blog posting, 2009-06-04
• Philipp Lohmann: One step forward, the next step back, blog posting, 2008-11-11